Cast & Crew
An independent regional cast and crew making an ambitious feature outside the usual production centers.
Cast
Ray Holly
A Central Illinois actor from Secor, Jensen has appeared in Final Days: Tales from the End Times, The Baton Rouge Serial Killer: Derrick Todd Lee, and Mara. He plays Ray, a wounded ex-military welder who has survived by keeping the world at a distance.
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Sydney
Ealey is an actor known for Baking Up Love and HOLLER. She plays Sydney, a resourceful survivor whose intelligence, stubbornness, and refusal to be underestimated force Ray back into the human world.
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Isaac
Born in Belleville, Illinois, Dunn is known for I70 Knights, Two Heads, and Play. In HOLLER he plays Isaac, one of the story's most dangerous and morally complicated figures.
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Carl
Krostal is a Midwest actor with extensive live-theater experience and screen work including Tears to a Glass Eye. He plays Carl.
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Luis
Sanchez is an independent film actor working across regional productions. He plays Luis in HOLLER.
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Key Creative Team
Writer, Director, Producer
Smock is a Jacksonville filmmaker, screenwriter, editor, and co-founder of Subterranean Sound & Vision. His work is rooted in microbudget production, regional stories, and building a sustainable film culture outside the traditional hubs.
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David is a filmmaker and co-founder of Subterranean Sound & Vision. He developed HOLLER with longtime friend Devin Smock and helped build the production around working lives, families, local locations, and a committed regional crew.
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A cinematographer and colorist with more than a decade behind the camera and in the grading suite, Hoos shaped HOLLER's visual language of hard sunlight, deep shadow, weathered interiors, and rural distance.
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Beavers is a producer known for HOLLER and Blood in Baton Rouge. He has been central to the practical work of moving the feature through production.
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Smock is a Jacksonville business owner and producer whose work behind the scenes has helped hold together the film's locations, logistics, community relationships, and day-to-day production.
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Pritchett is a practical-effects artist known for Smile Maker, Trick and Treats, and HOLLER. Working with Boo Crew Haunted House, she created the film's grounded, unsettling undead effects.
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Hammitt serves as HOLLER's script supervisor, tracking continuity across the feature's location-driven production and fragmented shooting schedule.
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Smith is co-composing the original score with William Fitzsimmons, extending HOLLER's quiet, haunted Midwestern atmosphere through music.
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Fitzsimmons is co-composing HOLLER's original score with Stuart Smith, bringing an intimate, textural musical sensibility to the film's rural landscape.
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Murphy recorded HOLLER's production dialogue and the texture of its practical rural locations.
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